THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA

We already knew he traveled through the Southeast.

The greater discovery is that the Native community he encountered can now be studied in its own physical landscape.

That is what makes Capachequi important.

It gives the past a location.

It gives archaeology a story.

And it gives an Indigenous community that was once reduced to a name in a Spanish account a much larger place in the history of America.

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